ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,181, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED INC. (Northridge, Calif.).
"Medication infusion components and systems" was invented by Kiem H. Dang (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Sarnath Chattaraj (Simi Valley, Calif.), Hsi C. Fusselman (Simi Valley, Calif.), Lance P. Hoffman (West Hollywood, Calif.) and Guangping Zhang (Calabasas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention pertains to systems and components useful for infusing medications such as insulin. Typically, the components are used to deliver insulin to a diabetic patient at a site of infusion over a period of time greater than 4 days. The system components ty...